In 1061 AD, there was such a dialogue in the Western Xia Imperial Palace.
"Cousin, no, Your Majesty, do you love me?" Leung asked.
"Of course love," Li Yuzuo, the Emperor of Western Xia, said in a firm tone.
"Since Your Majesty loves me, do you have the courage to marry me?" Leung asked.
"This, no problem!" Li Yuzuo did not hesitate.
Liang Stared at his cousin and asked, "I want to be empress, can I?" ”
"Sister-in-law, I will be able to make you wish!" Li Yuzuo said emphatically.
"However, cousin she is already the empress, can there be two bosses in the harem?" Liang shi said the doubt in his heart.
"Sister-in-law, Shuodu is 14 years old, and will soon seize power, and when the time comes, he will definitely abolish the Wuzang clan and make you the head of the six palaces!"
"I can see that Your Majesty truly loves me, and Your Majesty is worthy of my sincere dedication!" Liang Shi said excitedly, "Just now I was tempting Your Majesty, and now I tell Your Majesty a very important news, my father-in-law and husband are going to attack Your Majesty, they have already made a plan for rebellion, and the arrow is on the string." ”
Li Yuzuo listened, took Liang Shi in his arms, and said excitedly: "Sister-in-law, no, Empress Yuan, pray, Shuo is going to start fighting back!" ”
As the Emperor of Western Xia, why did Li Yuzuo secretly communicate with his sister-in-law Liang Shi, and who was Liang's father-in-law and husband?
Li Yuzuo was a member of the Dangxiang clan, born in 1047, the son of Li Yuanhao of Xia Jingzong.
After Li Yuanhao's death, Li Yuzuo became the second emperor of the Western Xia Kingdom, having been on the throne for 14 years.
Careful readers will surely ask, at this time, Li Yuzuo was only 14 years old, and he had been the emperor for 14 years.
This is also very normal, some people say that all roads lead to Rome, but some people are born in the city of Rome, all this, but also from Li Yuanhao's experience.
Li Yuanhao is an emperor with a strong male hormone, as long as he is a beautiful woman, no matter what his identity, he will dominate.
One day, he saw that the wife of the heavy minister Ye Li yu begged did not hide the black cloud, and he wanted to take it for himself. In order to achieve his goal, he found a stubble to put the chancellor Ye Liyu begging to die, let the Wuzang clan become a nun, and then like Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Li Zhi took Wu Meiniang, he brought the Wuzang clan to the palace and mixed them together.
Soon after, the seeds of love sprouted and blossomed, giving birth to a son, Li Yuzuo.
Ever since he met the beautiful Wuzang clan, Li Yuanhao had lost himself and spent all day drinking and going to the Palace of Helan Mountain to have fun. As for the major affairs of the state, Li Yuanhao handed over a brain to his brother-in-law who did not hide and blackmail Pang to deal with.
Seeing that his brother-in-law Li Yuanhao was addicted to wine and ignoring the government, he had the idea of not dividing up, wanting to learn from the good example of Cao Cao and Sima Zhao and completely control the government.
If you want to monopolize the government, the best way is to set up a puppet emperor, and it is most appropriate to appoint your own nephew.
However, his own nephew Li Yuzuo was not the eldest son, Li Yuanhao already had a prince, called Ning Lingge, this child was already very old, obviously not easy to control, only to eliminate him, in order to make the little nephew naturally become the prince.
It just so happened that Li Yuanhao, the lustful emperor, had taken over his daughter-in-law, And Ning Lingge's fiancée had not emigrated. After learning the news, Pang was overjoyed, and fanned the flames in front of Ning Lingge: "Such a dark prince wants him to do even worse, simply slaughter him, you are good to be the emperor, rest assured and bold to do it, uncle I fully support you." ”
Ning Lingge couldn't bear his father's beast behavior, and the bloodiness of the Dang Xiangren made him unable to swallow this breath, and he couldn't swallow his breath like Li Mao, the son of Tang Xuanzong and the King of Shou. Enraged, Ning Lingge felt that he had received the "strong support" of the Minister of State, who held real power, and immediately became murderous.
On a dark and windy night in a month, Ning Lingge, who had drunk a lot of wine, carried a large knife, desperately rushed into the inner palace and brandished a butcher's knife at his father Li Yuanhao, who was drunk and drunk.
Unfortunately, because Ning Lingge's psychological quality was not too hard, in a panic, he only cut his father once, saw that his father's face was full of blood, and did not care whether his father was dead or not, he fled in a hurry.
Ning Lingge ran out of the harem and went straight to the Pang family to hide.
Without hiding Pang's great joy, this boy was sent to the door. Instead of sheltering Crown Prince Ning Lingge, he immediately arrested him for murdering the emperor.
Although Li Yuanhao did not die at that time, he also later bled too much and eventually died.
He did not hide his favor as he wished, and came forward to completely control the government, killing the crown prince Ning Lingge for the crime of "killing the king", as well as the crown prince's mother, Empress Yeli, who had been deposed by Li Yuanhao.
In this way, the younger sister's son, Li Yizuo, who was only 11 months old and had only 11 months old, became emperor in the name of Emperor Yizong.
At this time, Wuzang Bao Pang was the de facto emperor of Western Xia, and the infant nephew Li Yuzuo was an out-and-out puppet.
However, the little emperor always had to grow up, and in order to firmly control the regime, he did not hide pang from allowing his daughter to his nephew Li Yuzuo as a wife when Li Yuzuo was nine years old.
The daughter naturally became the empress, and the uncle of the country did not hide pang and became the abbot of the country, and the power was so great that no one dared to challenge his authority.
However, Li Yuzuo was not the Emperor Xian of Han, he was an emperor with great ambitions, he was not willing to be manipulated by others, and he understood things very early, and he joined politics at the age of 12.
Li Yuzuo matured at the age of 13 and longed for male and female love.
Mature is mature, isn't Li Yuzuo an empress, you can justifiably live a conjugal life. However, Li Yuzuo inherited the glorious tradition of his father Li Yuanhao's absurdity and shamelessness, believing in the life values of a wife being better than a concubine and a concubine being better than stealing, hoping to find excitement outside the palace.
Not only that, he also inherited Li Yuanhao's gene of liking other people's wives, and always felt that the crops were his own good, and his wife was the beauty of others.
The wife of someone else that Li Yuzuo liked at first turned out to be the daughter-in-law of his cousin.
When he was 13 years old, when Li Yuzuo went to his uncle's house to play, he glanced at his cousin, that is, the Liang family at the beginning of the article.
In Li Yuzuo's view, Chang'e in the Moon Palace was not as good looking as the Liang clan, and the women of the entire Western Xia Kingdom were even more eclipsed in front of the Liang clan, and only gave the Liang clan shoes.
Liang's age is obviously older than his cousin Li Yuzuo, he has more experience, and he knows more about the love between men and women, seeing that his little cousin (in fact, he is also a brother-in-law) has a little meaning for himself, he does not refuse to come, and begins to raise his eyebrows, opening the prelude to the sister-brother love.
Since then, the number of times Li Yuzuo went to his uncle to ask pang's family for peace increased, from once every half a month to once every ten days, and finally once every three days.
I was very happy that I was not hiding pang and saying that my little nephew was becoming more and more sensible and filial. In fact, where did he know that Li Yuzuo's invitation to Ann was false, the bubble girl was true, the drunkard's intention was not in the wine, and the people were in the Ming Xiu Zhan Dao darkness Chen Cang.
However, Li Yuzuo also knew that it was not a matter of going to his uncle's house to ask for peace, afraid that his uncle would see the flaws, so he changed his work style and invited his cousin to visit the palace instead.
It is said that the Liang family is a married wife, and it is immoral to go out of the wall with red apricots, not to mention that it is his own little cousin who cheats on him, which belongs to incest.
But the little cousin is the emperor, and the husband can't compare with him, in this case, the Liang family did not withstand the temptation, so they half pushed and half pushed, and Li Yuzuo carried the sister-brother love to the end.
Of course, Liang also understood that this was not a matter of going on, in case her husband found out, he would die.
Even if he is not discovered, who dares to guarantee that Li Yuzuo, the emperor of the wind, will not empathize with each other, start a new relationship, and fall in love with another other person's wife?
In order to give yourself an insurance of feelings, you should still go to the emperor's side as soon as possible and become a righteous empress, so that after the old pearl is yellow, you are not afraid of being abandoned.
Li Yuzuo was also very obsessed with the Liang clan and did not want to share the Liang clan with his cousin, and had the idea of exclusivity. However, at this time, the real power in the DPRK was controlled by his uncle, and he wanted to get his cousin to talk about how easy it was, so he could only slowly cultivate his cronies and take back his power step by step.
However, just as they began to plan step by step, there was no hiding or idleness.
First of all, the paper can't wrap the fire, they are all people who come over, who doesn't know the ghost tricks played by Li Yuzuo and his cousin? Pang not only saw his nephew's heart, but also the political ambitions of the little emperor.
Knowing that the little nephew was not the emperor who had lived under the people for a long time, he began to weaken the power of the little emperor before his wings were full.
First of all, he used the excuse to kill Li Yuzuo's close associates Gao Huaichang and Mao Weizheng, and then knocked on the mountain and shocked the tiger, killing chickens and frightening monkeys. Li Yuzuo also already understood politics, and knew that his uncle's purpose in doing this was to send a signal to warn himself not to mess around.
But Li Yuzuo did not relent, still quietly wooing the political enemies who did not hide Pang, waiting for the opportunity, planning to give his uncle a fatal blow.
Wuzang Pang was an old fox, how cunning, and seeing that things were not good, he was not willing to sit still and decided to preemptively attack.
China's court struggles are like this, the hands are fast and the hands are slow, the first hand is strong, and the second hand suffers. The change of Xuanwu Gate in the Tang Dynasty, the change of the Ming Dynasty to seize the door, and the coup d'état of Xin You in the Qing Dynasty are all like this.
Moreover, palace coups are often very dramatic, that is, the fortress is easy to break through from within, there will always be internal traitors, the work of secrecy is not done well, and the leaky news is started by the other side, and the success is lost.
This time, there was no hiding of Pang, and the plan to launch a coup was known to the daughter-in-law in advance. Liang Shi has fallen in love with his little cousin, unable to extricate himself, and when he learns that his father-in-law and husband are going to murder his little cousin, he naturally will not stand idly by and intend to inform.
But she didn't know in her heart, she didn't know if her little cousin Li Yuzuo really loved her, whether it was worth it for her to do so, and whether she would be pressed to the cold bench by the little emperor in the end. Therefore, there is a scene at the beginning of the article, Liang Shi repeatedly asked Li Shuzuo, and after receiving a positive reply, he put out his father-in-law's rebellion plan and plan.
Li Yuzuo was shocked when he learned about it, and said in his heart that he did not hide pang pang, you old fox, really want to attack your nephew, you are not kind, I am not righteous, I will not recognize you as an uncle.
He struck first and decided to deliver a fatal blow to his uncle.
With the gun in his hand, he sent his uncle's political enemy, the great general Man, who held military power, to lead the Imperial Forest Army and go straight to his uncle's house. Soon, Pang was executed on charges of treason. The daughter of Pang, li yuzuo's empress, was not spared and became a ghost under the sword.
After seizing power, Li Yuzuo did not break his word and made his former sister-in-law Liang Shi empress.
In fact, after careful analysis, it is not difficult to find that Li Yuzuo loves his sister-in-law, not purely because of love, but most likely to develop an informant around his uncle, in order to collect intelligence, grasp the movements of political enemies, and know himself and know the other.
To this end, he did not hesitate to give his life. And did not hide pang to install his daughter next to his nephew, but not to achieve the same purpose. Unfortunately, the nephew is skilled, and the daughter who did not hide pang did not grasp her husband's heart.
It was precisely because of the failure of the intelligence work that Pang lost to his nephew.
Although Li Yuzuo used his cousin, his cousin Liang Shi was indeed loyal to him and made great achievements. As a result, he was able to smash the anti-imperial clique led by his uncle Wuzang Pang in one fell swoop, and he kept his promise to make Liang an empress and live up to her.
Although The Liang clan betrayed her husband as an internal traitor, but finally had a good home, it was not worth it.
After Li Yizuo regained power, he did not play with things like his father, absurd and shameless, and cruel and unkind. If he had done so, I am afraid that he would have finished playing a long time ago, because he did not have the capital to lose his mind, and he was only 12 years old when he regained power, and if he did not walk on thin ice and exert himself, he would not be able to gain a foothold at all.
At this time, in addition to internal contradictions, Xixia faced external pressures.
The biggest external pressure that Western Xia was facing at that time came from the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty did not pay attention to the Western Xia who was in charge of this little hairy child. In the context of Li Yuzuo's new rise to power and the urgent need for a peaceful external environment, he did not beg for mercy, and he knew that peace could not be sought, and respect was not bought.
The young Tianzi was very decisive and decided to promote peace with war and win the respect of his opponents with victory on the battlefield. At the age of 17, he resolutely marched in person, led tens of thousands of troops, and launched a strong attack on the Song Dynasty Qinfeng and Jingyuan states.
In the following years, western Xia's military operations against the Song continued, but the purpose was to show strength and not let the other side look down on themselves. Later, in the face of strong enemies, Li Yuzuo adopted a flexible foreign policy, maneuvering between the Song, Liao, and Tubo tribes, and maneuvering with ease, allowing Western Xia to survive.
It was at this time (1068) that Li Yuzuo died suddenly, at the age of twenty-one. He was buried in Anling and succeeded by his son Li Bingchang.
At this time, Li Bingchang was only 7 years old, and he was also a doll emperor, and the situation facing Western Xia was very grim. His mother, Empress Liang, stepped forward, turned the tide, and began to govern for 9 years.
It was not until the second year of Da'an (1076) that the 16-year-old Li Bingchang began to pro-government, but Empress Liang was still unable to take a back seat.
One is because power is a very tempting thing and can't let go; Second, because he offended many political enemies when he was regent, he would definitely be liquidated and retaliated against when he retired; Third, her son Li Bingchang is not too single-minded with himself, and the two women are also secretly competing, and she does not want to concede defeat to her son.
In order to consolidate her power, she spared no effort to suppress the pro-emperor forces, established the Liang family group, and began to copy the successful experience of Wu Zetian.
However, she has a shortcoming, that is, her ethnic composition, she herself is Han, so the Western Xia interest groups do not recognize her, and they are dissatisfied with her rule. To this end, Empress Liang had to abolish the Sinicization system advocated by Li Yuzuo and restore the party customs of the conservative faction.
There is no doubt that this is a reversal of history, which is tantamount to digging her own grave, although she has won the support of some people and attracted many people's opposition. In this context, Empress Liang had to divert domestic contradictions by waging war, but doing so was tantamount to quenching her thirst and fighting the fire with a salary.
This greatly consumed the weak national strength of Western Xia, resulting in a shortage of state finances, and the people were not happy, and had to negotiate peace with Song. As a result, Empress Liang's prestige was swept away, and political enemies stepped up the pace of forcing her to hand over power.
Empress Dowager Liang made a desperate bet and put her son Li Bingchang of Xia Huizong under house arrest.
Later, under the pressure of public opinion, Empress Liang had to let Xia Huizong restore the throne, but she still refused to relinquish power.
In the eleventh year of Da'an (1085), the 37-year-old Empress Liang fell ill and died of internal and external troubles.
Power is tempting, but the process of chasing power is also a dangerous game, like a racing car, if you are not careful, you will destroy the car and kill people.
Li Yuzuo is not unwise, he seduces his sister-in-law for power, and fights for imperial power for her sister-in-law. However, people are not as good as heaven, and in the end, he makes a wedding dress for people, making the Liang family the biggest beneficiary.